At MI Construction inSites (MICI), MI’s sister company, our dedication to your building project goes beyond the ordinary. We oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring every detail harmonizes with your vision. Serving as your representatives, we seamlessly integrate into your team, advocating for your interests from the initial design stages to the triumphant move-in phase.
Embarking on construction projects, especially in a foreign country, poses its unique set of challenges. Standards and terminology differ, and the trifecta of cost, timeline, and quality remains a perpetual concern, demanding vigilant oversight to guarantee the timely, budget-friendly, and quality completion of any facility. Our clients trust us to navigate these complexities and deliver a facility that not only meets expectations but exceeds them.
Control
As foreign investors, you deserve a watchful eye that consistently ensures your expectations are met. We hold your General Contractor and sub-contractors accountable. From overseeing non-conforming material replacements identified by testing services to confirming flawless finishes that align with your vision, we’re here for you. Our advocacy extends to monitoring the strategic deployment of resources to meet deadlines. For large projects, we can deploy ad-hoc project inspectors with daily oversight. For every phase, the team conforms to your needs.
Coordination
From coordinating with production equipment manufacturers, racking system providers, material testing, to curating architectural finish selections, we’ve got it all covered. Our hands-on approach extends to assisting in the startup and commissioning of equipment. Furthermore, we diligently monitor critical aspects like payments, builder’s risk insurance, and assess potential change orders. Timely and informed management of these elements is key, safeguarding against issues like poor quality, construction delays, and unnecessary overpayments.
Technical Cultural Link
Effective communication is the linchpin of success in project management. Our team excels at bridging language and cultural gaps for the seamless translation of the foreign investor’s desires and requirements to U.S.-based contractors. Simultaneously, we convey technical constraints back to the investor. This bi-directional communication expedites understanding and facilitates the discovery of efficient solutions, ultimately serving the best interests of the project and ensuring a solid foundation for the investor’s future business endeavors in the U.S.
The MICI Advantage
With over two decades of extensive experience managing construction projects, including recent ones valued at over $45 million, the MICI team is a beacon of technical mastery. Our certified Project Management Professionals (PMP) are led by our CEO, a licensed General Contractor. We offer not just leadership but invaluable insights into local construction requirements, ensuring compliance and paving the way for success.
While we are in Charlotte, NC, our team can help you build anywhere in the U.S. Clients can also take advantage of MI’s other service offerings while building their facility to ensure 360-degree support with their U.S. market entry or expansion.
Our Owner’s Representatives Adhere to the Standard Project Management Process Groups
Initiation
Initiation
Planning
Planning
Execution
Execution
Monitor and Control
Monitor and Control
Closeout
Closeout
From navigating local regulations to overseeing project timelines and budgets, we’re here to ensure your project’s success!
Frequently Asked Questions
An Owner’s Representative acts as an extension of the owner’s team, managing the day-to-day operations of a building project. An Owner’s Representative can advise and represent the owner from the earliest stages of the project, through design, permitting, pre-construction, bidding, commissioning, move-in, etc. Owners Representatives represent your interests only – and not those of the contractors, designers, or suppliers.
Construction in any location is a challenge, particularly in an unfamiliar country. There are constant concerns about price, schedule, and quality, which must be consistently monitored to ensure that a facility is completed on time, within budget, and that it meets quality expectations. Through MI’s sister company, MI Construction inSites (MICI), our Owner’s Representative Services provide construction project oversight to ensure the facility the client builds in the U.S. conforms to U.S. standards while meeting the client’s specific requirements.
Contract structure and risk transfer are very important in the U.S. MICI will help review and will work with your council to develop contracts that best protect your interests. Additionally, insurance and lien rights differ in the U.S. and from state to state. MICI has experience managing these requirements and processes and can help reduce risk.
MICI’s Owner’s Representative Services can provide basic cost estimates through its extensive knowledge of construction to help budgeting and evaluating whether to purchase an existing structure or build.
Yes, the design-build process can be a challenge because there are more moving parts than in a normal design-bid-build project. This requires constant attention to ensure proper execution of the project, and that is something an Owner’s Representative can provide.
Our staff has 20+ years of extensive experience on construction projects valued at over $35M across several industries. MICI’s managers, who have been Consultants, Project Managers, Inspectors, and Auditors on past projects, have the technical expertise and the interpersonal skills needed to navigate complex projects, approach serious issues, and resolve in a professional manner all the conflicts that normally arise during the construction process. MICI’s CEO is also a licensed General Contractor in both North Carolina and South Carolina and is able to fully support our clients in understanding the local requirements that are peculiar to the construction industry in our region.
A project management process group is a set of organized processes designed to achieve specific project goals, as defined by PMI. These groups are separate from project phases. The project management processes are categorized into five main groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing Process.
Normally, we do not provide 100% onsite supervision. However, we establish an open and continuous communication channel with the general contractor across the entire period of the project and we do guarantee a presence onsite based on the complexity of the project. For large projects, we can hire ad-hoc project inspectors to reside onsite and assist full-time during the construction process.
With any project, our Managers will perform regular inspections and audits, monitor the schedule and progress made along with the project, and comfortably support our clients in the payment application and purchase orders review process.
MICI’s Owner’s Representative acts as an advocate on your behalf. We communicate directly with the contractors and negotiate terms. While not every unexpected cost is unavoidable, we have the knowledge to determine what is necessary, and what is unreasonable. We can then communicate everything to you so that you can make an informed decision.
Where necessary, MICI can step in and take more control over the project by closely monitoring the process. We can try to expedite where possible, and hire different contractors when necessary. While some things like the timing of work permits are out of our control, we take the reins elsewhere to make sure the project stays as close to schedule as possible.
At the beginning of the project, you and the Owner’s Representative will decide on the best means of communication: frequency, channel, etc. If an urgent matter arises, MICI will alert you as soon as possible.